[mjp]

Over the past several decades, the basic relationship between the American people and its government has been radically redefined from that of citizenship with its resultant duties and obligations to that of consumers with its consequent pile of rights and choices.

The moral and political inversion of today's government is due to the altruist-collectivist morality. Instead of protecting rights, the govenment is violating rights. Instead of guarding freedom, the government is establishing slavery. Instead of protecting men from force, the government is initiating force. Instead of protecting men from injurous whim, the government is arrogating to itself the power of unlimited whim. Now, we are fast approaching the stage of ultimate inversion: rule by brute force where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission.

[NewRevolutionNow.org]

In our constitutional republic, it is “we the people” who are held responsible for maintaining our own rights and not the government. The central government must be placed back into it’s constitutionally bound box and it is “we the people” who must do it.